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Oct 2025
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Part One: That Time Volkswagen Operated ...

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Robert sits down with Maggie Mae Fish to discuss how Volkswagen went from Hitler's favorite auto-company to the owner of a slave plantation in the Amazon during the Reagan Era.

 

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